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Maniac

Maniac is known to be the name of six musical artists:
1. A new project of The Matches frontman Shawn Harris and Something With Numbers frontman Jake Grigg. Formed in 2009 under the name Maniac, they currently have a blog for posting song clips of their covers of the current Billboard Hot 100 number one single. They have so far covered "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas and are set to release their debut album in 2010. Their debut album, Mania, can be previewed and purchased from their official website at http://maniacmania.com/

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OZ

1. Oz is a Finnish heavy metal band in the 80's. They're not very well known these days but they were among the first and most succesful bands and did some solid groundwork for the Finnish metal scene that blooms today. The band retired after releasing the "Roll the Dice" album, but reunited, located in Sweden, in February 2010. The band has, until this day, released 5 studio albums, 1 EP, Two singles and has appeared on "Scandinavian Metal Attack" splits 1 & 2.

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Danton

There's at least two bands and a DJ with this name:
1) Danton is an English DJ based in london, formally known as Wam Way who used to promote in Norwich. Mixing alot of house, garage, techno and future sounds.
http://soundcloud.com/danton_deejay
2) German state of the art screamo/post-hardcore combination. With Benjamin on the guitar, max on the drums and Fabian on the bass this trio is making its way through the modern screamo sound. This band is from Wuppertal, and are close friends to another screamo band named Faced moment from the same region.